As a reminder, since 2014, the occupiers’ propaganda has tirelessly fabricated fakes
regarding the so-called “water blockade” of Crimea and demanding the “opening of the North Crimean Canal.” In 2020, the occupiers even unsuccessfully appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on this matter, while they tried in every way to “justify” the full-scale aggression by citing the seizure of the canal and the “restoration of water supplies.”
Since 2022, the clan of “Crimean speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov has initiated the previously described “lawsuit company” in the illegal “Crimean courts” regarding the “water and energy blockade.”
And in November 2025, the same Konstantinov, “reporting on the results of his work,”
announced that “the Crimean arbitration court had satisfied” 12 “blockade claims.”
We previously wrote that Konstantinov-style collaborators promised “tens of thousands of claims” from “affected enterprises” and “hundreds of thousands of applications from ordinary Crimeans,” which “for some reason” had not materialized over the course of a year.
However, we did not rule out the possibility that structures controlled by the collaborators, as well as “civil servants,” “public sector employees,” and the like, would “voluntarily-compulsorily” file these “claims.”
And in this situation, it became extremely tragicomic that Konstantinov’s bravura statements were immediately “corrected” in the TASS report.
It turns out that not 12, but 28 “claims” were filed with the “Crimean arbitration court,”
and of the aforementioned “water claims,” three “were dismissed without consideration due to the failure of representatives to appear,” and in another five cases, “proceedings were terminated due to the plaintiffs’ withdrawal of their claims.”
In another six cases, “proceedings were terminated without reason given, as the hearings were held behind closed doors,” and the “claim” from the “Crimean Soda Plant”, “upheld by the court of first instance, was overturned due to newly discovered circumstances.”
We wrote that these “exposures” against Konstantinov, and the characteristic situation with the “lawsuits” themselves, demonstrate that the “Crimean speaker’s” initiative to “sue Ukraine” is not being received unambiguously in the Kremlin, that “competing clans” of collaborators have clearly decided to sabotage it, and there is no sign of any sign from Moscow to “make the necessary decisions.”
And now, at the end of December, the same Konstantinov suddenly declared that the North Crimean Canal is “like a scar on the body of the republic” and that “an unfavorable environmental situation is being created near it.”
The “speaker” also complained that supposedly “restoring the canal to its original form is a very expensive undertaking,” discussing “enormous cranes” and “room-sized pumps,” and declaring the alleged “danger” of “muddy water” from the Dnieper.
Against this backdrop, the collaborators’ retroactive admission, voiced a month ago, it is also characteristic that the “large-scale desalination plants” the occupiers were soliciting in 2018-2022 are “unprofitable” and “environmentally dangerous.”
This “change of heart” can be explained by the fact that the fiasco with the “lawsuits,”
as well as the obvious impossibility of restoring the Kakhovka HPP dam, which the Russians themselves undermined, against the backdrop of the “sudden” drought of 2025, the collaborators are trying to cover up in the classic “sour grapes” style.
As for the reclamation itself, we previously pointed out that the water from the canal cannot even hypothetically be used effectively by Crimean farmers now, not because of its “turbidity,” but because, under the “industry management system” created by the occupiers, irrigated agriculture has become unprofitable due to the colossal bureaucratic and corrupt burden.
This is also demonstrated by the “enormous figures” according to which, in 2025, “as many as” 380 hectares of “modern irrigated land” were allegedly commissioned in occupied Crimea, and in some “bright day after tomorrow,” they plan to increase this to no more than a thousand hectares, which, on the scale of the peninsula, is literally “a drop in the bucket.”
Thus, in the twelfth year of occupation, it has become clear that the melioration and the “Russian world” are completely incompatible categories for Crimea.
